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Deafness Can't be Cured

by local applications, as they can not
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There is only one way to cure Deaf
ness. and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infamed condition Of the mucus lining
of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube gets inAamed, you have a rumb-
ling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed Deafness Is
the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
casesout Of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed con
dition Of the mucus surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of Deafness tcaused by
Catarrb) that we can not cure BY
taking Halls CatarTh Cure Send
for eirculzr, free
z J. CHENEY & co,
Toledo. Ohio.
ES Sold bv Dr1ggists, Is cents
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SAN MARCOS HAYS
NO. A..
Wise Words from rowderly.

Grand Master Powderly at Mime
apolis Thursday, the 9Th inst: / now
desire TO make some recommendation
to the general assembly, and / do
most respectfully ask that more con-
sideration be given to them than has
been given TO others that I made to
past general sessions. / believe the
day has come for the Knights OF La
bor TO ask at the hands OF congress-
the passage Of law creating de-
partment Of labor at the seat Of tho
national government We have. to-
day department of war. We do
not need il at all in comparison to
department Of labor. The prosperity
of the whole country rests on the
broad shoulders of labor, and there
is nothing now so prominently before
the nation and the world as the ques-
tion Of labor. Nearly every action
taken now by the executive or bis
cabinet deals in one way or another
with the question Of labor. It's ram
ifications extend everywhere. lis
power is felt everywhere and its use
fulness is now recognized everywhere.
1 believe that the government Of the
United States should operate its own
lines of telegraph.
1 believe that it is absolutely neces-
sary for the welfare and prosperity Of
the country that the government es-
tablishes telegraph system to be
used in the interest Of the people. i
recommend that steps be taken to
have the next congress act on bill
to establish government telegraph
to be run in connection with the pos
tai service. I believe that we should
go before the next congress asking
for the passage Of but one or two
measures. They should be import
ant ones, and the full strength OF the
organization should be behind those
who make the demand. believe,
however, that nothing can be more
important that the passage Of laws
creating government telegraph and
a national department Of labor. To
deal knowingly and intelligently with
the questions in our declaration OF
principles we should have o journal
published under the control OF the
order, which would reach every mem
Der. 1t should have department
especially devoted to discussion OF
those very questions. We must make
a radical change in the methods OF
educating our members. II is not
enough that they come to and go
from meeting once a week They
should have something to read us the
result OF their visit to the assembly.
The, work of education Of the old and
young is duty which we should not
attempt to put to one side.
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VOL. XVI.
TO ADVERTISERS.
The Free Press Recognized by Geo. T..
ROwell Il Co., as Ahead as an
Advertising Medium.

The well known advertising agency Of
Geo. p. .Rowell & Co., of New York City. have
issued an annual Newspaper Directory for
thirty years or more, and these publications
have been generally recognized as authority
as TO the matter of newspaper circulation
In the regular issues Of the Directory they
have inolnded oil the newspapers published
in the United States and Canada. Quite
recently, however, they have issued con-
densed list. II gives only the oest newspa-
pers as advertising mediums, and hence is
practically better, because more convenient
than their larger Directory. Four-ifths OF
the newspapers of the United States are
practically counted OUT by intelligent ad-
vertisers, who only want to know me oest.
Hence the value of the work nnder notice
The publishers in the preface well say: :.
1T Sits the wheat from the chaf. IL di.
rects the attention of an advertiser toward
papers which he should and ought to use
and tends to intercept a portion OF that pa
tronage which goes to publications which
cost greatly in excess of any power to bene.
f;t which thew possess. 1t takes the general
ground, that the best is the cheapest"
We need scarcely say that on this plan,
the FREE PBEss is given by this book (see
page 1859 rs the advertising medium OF San
Marcos and Hays county. it being Me o,tty
one on the list. We respectfully invite the
attention of advertisers, both at home and
abroad, to this fact.
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Yearly advertisers allowed the privilege
of quarterly change.
Business Cards, one inch orless, one year,
Ss. Cards in Business Directory, one year.
So. :u, h..,o5
Local and business notices will be harged
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Rsnevolent Societies, half rates.
Marriage and Obtuar' Notices, OF over ten
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Calls upon candidates, their replies ana
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All advertisements and subscriptions due
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A1y OF our friends would do us special
favor bg giving us the names of any per
sons withir their knowledge who would he
Iizaly to subscribe for the FREE PRESS so
that we may send specimen copies to such
persons.
Our terms for announcing candidates are
&15 for state and district Offices, - fof
county Offices, and $3 for precinct and mu-
picinal. Terms cash.
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POwderIy on Socialism.

The use of firearms and dynamite is
not advocated by the socialists. The
of property or distribu-
ton of wealth or means of those VINO
have not worked and earned it, is
not socialism. It is robbery, it is ra-
pine, and no sane man can advocate
such a doctrine. If believing in the
declarations of the principles of the
order makes me a socialist, then L
have no denials to make; that l am
a member of any other society in
which questions of labor or reform
are discussed, / deny.
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what II Costs to Smoke.


Last year the losses by reported
fires in the United States reached O
total Of $4,000, 900, or nm average
monthly loss Of $10,00O,000 This
is regarded as an enormous waste,
and is largely due to incendiarism
and carelessness. How to reduce the
amount 80 lost is matter OF con-
stanst study. Legislatures, local
governments, insurance companies,
make regulations and exercise the
greatest care to prevent fires. Aad
yet the loss they occasion is 100000
900 per annum less than the amount
paid by consumers for cigars, and
$50, 100000 less than the total cost
of tobacco consumed in smoke. Last
year tax was paid on 3,510,898,488
cigars. The average consumer is con-
tent with cigar worth $50 per thous-
and, or one that retails at five cents.
On that basis there annually goes up
in smoke $3.50, 100000, or $15,000,-
600 every month, or half a million
dollars every day. In addition boys
waste on cigarettes $6,0O0,5OO, and
those who prefer a pipe o further
sum OF $20,000,000.
How many smoke? If we deduct
from the total population as nom
smokers all children under fifteen,
constituting forty per cent Of the to-
tai population of 60.000,0G0, it leaves
SO, 100000, of whom one half are fe-
males deducting these gives o male
population above the age OF fifteen
of 100000. If six out OF every
ten males above the age Of fifteen
smoke, it means that 10,800,000 per-
sons consume 3,510,898,48S cigars
per annum. This is less than one
cigar per day. The average smoker
however, is not apt to be contented
with a daily allowance Of one cigar,
demanding at least two. II the latter
basis is the nearer correct, the army
of cigar smokers would be 4.S09, ,449,
being eight per cent OF the total pop
ulation above the age OF fifteen.
Whatever the number OF smokers.
lit is a moderate estimate to place the
cost OF smoking to the people OF the
United States at 206. 100000. II the
cost Of chewing tobacco is added
the total expenditure for tobacco
reaches s256, 100000; that is a sum
that represents a per capita tax OF
S3 A per annum- II the number OF
smokers is 4.SO0, ,449, the average ex-
pense Of SNORING is S4209 each per
annum; il the number is 7,0oO.OO0.
the cost is S2S64 per individual It
S1O.sOO, 900. it falls to Sl912-An-
Grocer. o.
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"PErERsoN" for November is before MS;
it is evidently determined to go out, this
wear, with flying colors. The steel-plate is
the finest of the year: it is copy of one of
Millaiss most charming pictures OF child
ren--the portrait of pretty little MISS Munet'
of nursery fame. The wood engraving,
'"Three Home-R Rulers" is, iu its way, equal
ly noticeable: it is the loveliest production
of Kate Greenway's facie pencil. The
fashion-plates display their usual excellence,
and among the numerous interesting stories
q very noticeable one is ALEC Benton, +" by
the popular Southern authoress. Miss nj. G.
McOlelland. The prospectus for 1883 offers
the promise of even greater attractions Tor
the coming twelvemonth. peterson mas
earned the right to style itself magazine OF
literature, art, and fashion: for, in every
essential. it unites the distinctly features OF
three separate magazines, either of which
one would acknowledge to be OF superior
merit During nearly half-century it has
SO thoroughly fulfilled every pledge, that we
feel sure the richer promises OF the coming
year will be fully kept. Peterson" is real
ly Il household-necessty Every lady should
take it. The terms nre Two Dollars per
year, with greatly reduce rates when taken
it clubs, aud with unusually fine premiums
to those getting up clubs, viz: Three ot'ies
for $3.50, with the handsome book of en-
cravings, "Choice Gems" or fine steel
engraving, "Wreath of Immortelles," for
premium; four copies for So 40, or six
copies for $500, with an extra copy, free,
to the getter-up of the club; or five copies
for SS. 90, or seven copies for S105O, with
both an extra COPY of the magazine and
either 'sChoice Gems or the engraving as
premiums. Any lady can, with little effort
secure at least one of these premiums, and
perhaps all of them. Specimens sent free
to those who desire to get up clubs. Ad-
dress PErERsoN's MAGAZINE, 306 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Letters that will Meyer Come.

With anxious features, worn and pale,
He waits the coming Of the mail
Each day he asks, with hope and fear,
"My letter, is my letter herey"
Each day he hears in silence dumb,
s'Not vet, old man, 1. has not come"
The harmless madman, old and gray,
No one would jeer or drive away.
"Ah mel" he says, "long years have past,
But Il will come. twill come at last"
And SO he waits in silence dumb
The letter that will never come.
Through misty vision of his tears,
He sees the long, far saddened years,
The past comes up before him there,
When he was strong and she was fair.
Once more he feels in very truth
The leaping pulses of his youth.
A strong, strange Joy he feels again
The old old fever in his brain
An angry word, a careless tone
And she has gone and he's alone;
Since then he waits in silence dumb
The letter that will never come.
Alas! his poor old wits are fled,
He cannot know that she is dead,
And so he asks it, DER and DER
The same old question as before.
He wakes each morning light to say,
MY letter-it will, come to-day"
With tottering limbs that almost fail,
He creeps each morning to the mail,
And hear with every new regret.
.'Not yet, old man, not yet, not yet"
And so he waits in silence dumb
The letter that will never come.
All. me! poor madman, even we
Are dupes of tickle destiny,
In ceaBeless hope we waiting sit
For missives that were never writ.
We wait to see the havest grown
OF seed that we have never sown,
We seek the harbor mouth, to hail
The vessel that will never sail.
We wait to see our garners filled
With fruit of trees we have not TILED.
We wait in gathering stiffness, dumb,
For letters that will never come.
Exchange.
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The manager of q Los Angeles
sent out the following
notice on postal card: 'The real
estate boom has robbed us of our edi-
tor, printer and office boy, and the
manager having opened real estate
office it has become necessary to sus-
pend the publication of this journal
until all hands have become million
aires, which, of course, will be in the
near future, Until then fraternally
yours"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-10-20

The s21,422, $50 in bonds recently
purchased by the government has eff
fected a saving of about s4,45S,613.
This is the computation made by the
Treasury officials and undoubtedly Is
correct Between the present time
and January 1, when, il is TO be pre-
sumed. Congress will get into work
ing order. it will be necessary 10
purchase about S45, 600, 600 Of bonds
II the suplus is to be kept from IN
creasing beyond present fguree- To
secure this amount OF bonds
however, the Treasury Department
will be obliged to offer greater induce
ments for their surrender than Il has
thus far done. An advance Of 2 or :
per cent could be given over present
rates and yet a large profit would be
made by the Government-Chieagc
News
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Legal and Transient Advertisements will
be charged One Dollar per square for the
first insertion, aud Fifty Cents per square
for each additional insertion. square Is
the space of one inch. Fractional squares
will be counted as full squares.
Advertisements for three months or more
will be charged at the following rates:
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Remove. Pa Sept 30, 81.

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RADF FIE:L.D'S
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Brown lsoliioquizing at ? O'Clock a
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New York. Oct 1o.-Tbe ladies'
Suffrage COMMITTEES. having been IN
formed thss many women desire TO
register and votA have announces
that al sbO cal ct tbeir beadqsar-
ters uiIl be informed hov TO proceed
according 10 lsg-
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MAILS.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF. TO AND
PROM sAS uARCOs POST OFFICE.
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CsaaJRCsE E;S.

METHODIsT.-Presching az the hethoois'
cbpreh everv sabbath, Rev. ". H. II. Biggs, Pastor.
SUNDAY School At ssm. Sit ging al ; O'Clock p m.
Praver Meeting on wednesday. Young Mems pray
er-meeiing on Monday night
RAPTIsT-Preaebing ct the Baptist Church
eveTv SUNDAY. Rev. ". n. Beverley, Pastor,
Sund.v Schosi at $50 a. m. Young mems prayer
meeting Tuesday nisht. Congregational prayer
meeting Wednesday night.
PRESBYTERlAE.-Servtce 2hd iud 9Th Sundays
each month. Rev. X. Houerton, pastor. sunday
sebosi svsry sabbath at $40 a.m. PRAYER Meet
inr svsry Thursdsy at E5O p. n. All s.e invited
90 attend
CaRIsTIAN.-Eider J. J. Wiiiisnson. PASTOR.
sundsy school a. =. m. cordial iHvitation eT-
tended 10 all.
PROTESTANT EPIscoPAL.--Rsv. n. p. Fuller.
Pasiar Services the 3nd and tth sunaaya 10 each
uouth. Sunday ucbool svsrF sCnsay-
CATHOlc.-ssrvioss stb sunday 10 sseh ROutb.
Rev. Fafksf Sr1ith Pafio--
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FROM GALVESTON.
Ed. FREE Press -
HON. J. q. CARLISLE.

HUN. y. u. CAhi4inLE
Our citizens were on the qui pir,
last week in view of the expected Wis
il of the Hon. John G. Carlisle
Speaker of the House Of Representa-
tives. The committees were busy oil
day Friday perfecting arrangement
for a welcome beftting 30 distingu
ishen a parsonage. Galveston's hos
pitallty was to have been shown hin
in no mean way. Next to Mr.. Cleve
land, he is considered by many her
to be the foremost statesman in Dem
ocratic circles. We were doomed
however, to disappointment. Tele
graphic communication announced a
the last moment that he had decide,
not to visit Texas. While he had no
an opportunity to test our hospitall
ty, he at least has our good will.
BASE BALL
fever has attacked our citizens in it
most violent form, and nothing els
/ is talked of. A New York combina
ton, composed of the country's bes
players, propose visiting here in Nc
vember, and, of course, excitement i
high among the boys. The ministe
of one of our leading Methods
churches here, in sermon to youni
men yesterday, among other thing
said, and very properly too, that q
the young men of Texas had dedicat
ed as much time to language an
learning this season as they have t
base ball, they would be peers OF tn
best in knowledge"
ARTEsIAN WELLS
are pronounced success in Galve
ton. We now have two wells giving
| it is claimed, 350,000 gallons of watt
daily, and another in process of con
pletion.
ELECTRIC STREET CARS.
The city council has acted favor
bly, on the petition of the Galvesto
City Street r. II. Co., for permissio
to use electric motors on their cal
to takes the place of mules as
means of propulsion, and we hoI
soon to see them in operation. III
two street car companies here, ope
ating some 35 miles of track, hay
consolidated.
SUNDAY LAW.
Judge Cooks decision in the caf
of The News has met with gener
favor. In the case of the saloo
keeper who appealed to Judge Coo
for decision, or rather to test I'll
constitutionality of the law as in a
plying to the sale of liquors on Su
day, the, decision was no surprls
The saloons are certainly the ma
thing aimed at by the law. III
Judge showed his good Judgment
both decisions, however much son
may differ with him in other respect
THE THEATRICAL SEASON
has opened here in full blast, al
some fine attractions will appear he
this winter. Were one to judge tt
financial condition of the people
the attendance at the opera, he wou
: naturally infer that there were
stringency in money matters.
THE TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
met here Saturday (8th) at the III
mont Hotel. The business befo
the association was largely of rO
tine character and of no general pu
lie interest. All left for home on &
evening trains.
our PUBLIC SCHOOLS
are an honor to the city and stat
and are without an equal in Texf
The scholars here have advantag
unequaled in the south by fir
schools. The recent reports show
constant increase in attendance, p'
| 49, I ..l...o.l ,,rnrnnrIu
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-10-20

Chronic nasal catarrh positively cured by
DIR. Sage's Remedy.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
Gs'EECzAeI.

ooSGuussMAN-STu DISTRICT:
II r. W Moore, Of Fayette county
SENATOR 25rR DISTRICT:
Hon W. H. Burgess, oil guadalupe 20.
ospnrssNrATIvEs-9lsT DISTRICT:
Han aeo T. McGehee, OF Hays Co.
Hon j. I. Ellison, OF Caldwell Co.
DISTRICT oouRr--2sSD DISTRICT.
Hon q. Teichmueller, Presiding Judge. LAGRANGE
I'M. Bethany. Attorney, Austin Co.
rIxus OF HOLDING COURT.
lat Mondays In March and Septemoer may
continue three weeks.
COUNTY orrIoERs.
nd r. Kone, Judge County Court.
las, q. Burleson, Dist. and County Clerk
q n McBr de, County Attorney
Jas A. Wren sheriff. J. ~ Turner Deputy :,
Us. Cock, Justice Of the Peace t.e' 70 !
j. A. Vaughn, :. 4" " 3
"" W "OSI, Slack "5
]. u. Patterson, County Treasurer.
II. 8. Fortson, Assessor.
Otto Groos, Surveyor
W. l.. Owen Coud'r Precinct NO.
H. G, Hubbs, .
peter Schmitt. "
". L. STEEL Constable precinct No, j
Jepp Henson, ~ .
S. K. Stone,
TIMES HOLDING COUNTY AND PRxGiEoI ovUI ~ ~.
County Court for Criminal. Civil and Probate pus-
pess-4th Mondays in January, april,Juiy'ocu-
Der. A., vohrr.,r
Nay.August and November. l..
Justice Court, Precinct No. Last Monoay III
each na onth, at San Marcos. ~, ,I.
Precinct No. 2-9d Friday in each month Mt'CNy'
~ SD &" Wimberley's MILL
q. 4-4th Sat. Dripping Springs.
OFFICERS.
M.yor-Hammett Hardy. 81,
CounciI-W. d, Wood. W. Donaldson, Gid
johnson, D. A. Glover. Nd. j. l.. Green, f'''e'
Smith. Dan Hoheinz and Roger BSrhe.
MArshal-wm. n. Lyell.
stree, commissioner-J. W. Danforih.
Couneii meets the first Tuesday In eacn montn;
Merchants Exchange. meets the first FRIDAY
night in each month Al the Mayors Shee
Public School Trustees meet fret Monday IN each
month at the NATOr's ofhce.
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ARTEsIAN WELLS

are u pronounced success in Calves
ton. We now have two wells giving,
it is claimed, 35O,0O0 gallons of water
daily, and another in process OF COM
pletion.
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our PUBLIC SCHOOLS

are an honor to the city and state,
and are without an equal in Texas.
The scholars here have advantages
unequaled in the south by free
schools. The recent reports show a
constant increase in attendance, per-
fection and school property.
Oct. 10. 1887. j. j. DIRKs.
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Commercial Notes Of Pennsylvania.

Ed. FREE PREss The following
is note in general use in this State,
the same being sanctioned by law |;